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New York Times: Sunday, December 18, 2005
Below is the full solution for the Sunday, December 18, 2005 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Ethan Cooper,
Michael Shteyman
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Takes off
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Blurted (out)
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Track runner?
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Track runner?
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Mona ___ smile
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Mona ___ smile
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Parts of hearts
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Parts of hearts
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Docent's offering
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Docent's offering
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Sarah Josepha ___, who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
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Sarah Josepha ___, who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
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Seven-time French Open winner
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Seven-time French Open winner
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Melodramatic
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Melodramatic
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"The Aviator" actor, 2004
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"The Aviator" actor, 2004
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Marine killer
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Marine killer
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The Beatles, once
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The Beatles, once
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"Have a nice weekend heh-heh"
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"Have a nice weekend heh-heh"
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Cousin of Muhammad
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Babealicious
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E'en if
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Part of a speller's clarification
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Having four sharps
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Cry of success
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Pound with a metric system?
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First name in modeling
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Cantillated
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"You, in the front row!"
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"You, in the front row!"
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Cracked
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Family
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Family
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Controversial 50's event
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Element in magnetic alloys
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Element in magnetic alloys
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Caesarean delivery?
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Caesarean delivery?
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Apples can be compared to them
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Apples can be compared to them
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Quadrennial White House administration
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"My lecture's done, but we still have five minutes"
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"My lecture's done, but we still have five minutes"
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Crowd attractor
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Crowd attractor
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Riddle-me-___
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Riddle-me-___
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Like some effects
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Like some effects
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Last lines
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The lonely goatherd, in a "Sound of Music" song
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The lonely goatherd, in a "Sound of Music" song
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Feminine suffix
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Slate, e.g., for short
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"I can't read your handwriting!"
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"I can't read your handwriting!"
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Track event
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Track event
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Record problem
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Record problem
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Behind
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Behind
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Listening to Muzak, maybe
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Listening to Muzak, maybe
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German coal city
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German coal city
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Uncle ___ rice
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Uncle ___ rice
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Inlet
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Inlet
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Some bills
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Some bills
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"Your grades aren't what they should be"
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"Your grades aren't what they should be"
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Inhuman
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Inhuman
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Meatloaf serving
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50-Across's partner
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Father or son Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath"
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Father or son Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath"
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It lacks 93-Across
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Port container
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Port container
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Its musical ID is just the notes G, E and C
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Brian of rock
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Brian of rock
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Govt. org. with a flower in its logo
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"If I could digress for a moment "
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"If I could digress for a moment "
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Diplomat Deane of early America
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Start of a decision-making process
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Start of a decision-making process
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"Good ___!"
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"Good ___!"
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Netanyahu's successor
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Netanyahu's successor
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Sharp
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Sharp
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Philosopher Descartes
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Ending of many toothpaste names
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Steamed
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Steamed
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Heads of états
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River of W.W. I
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River of W.W. I
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Ziegfeld Follies costume designer
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Ziegfeld Follies costume designer
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Spaced (out)
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Proceed nonchalantly
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"High Spirits" star, 1988
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"High Spirits" star, 1988
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Literary dueler
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Literary dueler
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Opportune
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Opportune
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Pourer's request
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Pourer's request
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Successful film franchise starting in 1979
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Successful film franchise starting in 1979
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San Francisco street named for a president
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San Francisco street named for a president
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Not take for credit
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Not take for credit
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Certain guilty pleasure
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Certain guilty pleasure
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Ten Commandments word
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Ten Commandments word
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"For the ___ and radiant maiden": Poe
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"For the ___ and radiant maiden": Poe
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Reynolds Wrap maker
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Reynolds Wrap maker
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Isn't joking
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Sore throat remedy
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Sore throat remedy
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One of six Russian rulers
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One of six Russian rulers
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Submit
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Submit
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French satellite-launching rocket
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French satellite-launching rocket
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Was a good dog, perhaps
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Was a good dog, perhaps
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Go through slowly
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Go through slowly
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"Dig?"
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"Dig?"
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Dig
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Dig
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Cutting down, after "on"
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Cutting down, after "on"
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Old literary inits.
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Old literary inits.
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Car maker whose name is Latin
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"___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Hamlet
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"___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Hamlet
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Like some Bedouins
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Like some Bedouins
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Like Charlie Chaplin
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Like Charlie Chaplin
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Gets
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Gets
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Professors' environs
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Professors' environs
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Objects of envy
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Objects of envy
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Black holes, e.g.
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Black holes, e.g.
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In the initial phases
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In the initial phases
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Index fingers, in a children's hand game
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Index fingers, in a children's hand game
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Great American Ballpark team
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Great American Ballpark team
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Siren
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Siren
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Is multitudinous
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Is multitudinous
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Any of TV's Simpsons
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Any of TV's Simpsons
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Polite question
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Technique for viewing some slides?
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Technique for viewing some slides?
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Neb. neighbor
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Old German duchy name
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Fall locale
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Fall locale
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Best replacement
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Set of values
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Set of values
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Ridicule
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Trojan horse
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Trojan horse
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Hardy girl
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Hardy girl
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Some have black eyes
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Some have black eyes
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Bottom lines
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Bottom lines
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Vikings' org.
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Vikings' org.
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Turn off
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Turn off
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Verve
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Verve
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Open case
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Open case
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Good time to collect seashells
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Good time to collect seashells
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27 for 56-Across, e.g.: Abbr.
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27 for 56-Across, e.g.: Abbr.
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"That's ___!"
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"That's ___!"
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Serenades, as the moon
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Serenades, as the moon
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Le soleil, par exemple
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Le soleil, par exemple
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It works like a charm
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It works like a charm
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W.W. II conference site
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Endorphin, e.g.
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Endorphin, e.g.
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Like raccoons
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Like raccoons
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Cap sites
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Cap sites
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Spy's gizmo
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Spy's gizmo
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Beard
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Beard
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Feminine suffix
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Appraiser
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Appraiser
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County of Dover, Delaware or Dover, England
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County of Dover, Delaware or Dover, England
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Relative of a potato
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